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Does the type of Windows 7 affect compatibility? I still use XP but was looking into upgrading to 7. The Microsoft site lists Windows7 "Home edition" and "Professional" where the latter has XP compatibility.

Does not matter at all. The "XP Mode" of Windows 7 Professional Edition is actually a virtual machine, which is quite useless to most users. Which edition of Windows 7 you run does not affect compatibility with GOG games in any way.

Basically, if you do not know or understand what benefits the Professional Edition would give you, you most likely don't need it. Stick with Home and you will be fine.

eastc: Does the type of Windows 7 affect compatibility? I still use XP but was looking into upgrading to 7. The Microsoft site lists Windows7 "Home edition" and "Professional" where the latter has XP compatibility.

Do games run better "Professional" than on "Home Edition".

Unless you're using your PC in a commercial environment with a full domain based network you don't need Professional or indeed Ultimate. Home edition Premium is all any home user needs.

ZivilSword: This is the current (2013-02-22) list of all games not officially stated working on Windows 7:

Miaghstir: Fixed. There's a slight-but-very-important difference.

Curse you, logic! That’s what’s happening when you try to come up with complex sentences in a foreign language. :-) I understand English very well but have few practice in writing or even speaking. I will correct my posting, thanks for the hint.

ZivilSword: This is the current (2013-02-22) list of all games not officially stated working on Windows 7:

Quite often the problem is somewhere else (e.g. drivers, HW features etc.) than the OS itself.

For example, I've played Gorky17 through in Windows 7/64bit (on a Lenovo ThinkPad T400 laptop), but I think NVidia users may have more issues with it than ATI/AMD users, at least if they want to run it 3D accelerated.

I don't know if NVidia users had less problems in WinXP with this game, I don't have a WinXP machine with NVidia GPU (only ATI).

duxcorvan: Freespace 2 works well in my Win 8 (which is mostly a reskinned and tuned Win 7). I admit is the 32 bit campy version, guess there may be trouble in 64 bit.

I may try my German CD version from around 2004. If this works, the GOG version should do, too.

timppu: Quite often the problem is somewhere else (e.g. drivers, HW features etc.) than the OS itself.

Hm, quite old games for Windows can be problematic in graphics, but why should there be a difference between NVidia and ATI/AMD? Unless it’s a Voodoo special edition, I don’t see the point. I had more problems with Windows7 itself, e.g. playing Starcraft. This is quite impossible playing fullscreen without colouring issues, unless you use Windows XP. And this is not the only game with this special problem. Only patching could help, and I think, GOG has access to the source code, if it helps.